Eorþ-cafer

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

eorþ-cafer

Substitute: eorþ-ceafer, es; m. An earth-beetle :-- Eorðceaperas (printed -caferas, but see Angl. viii. 450) tauri (cf. a kind of earth-beetles called tauri, i. Buls, Holland's Pliny), Wrt. Voc. i. 24, 26. eorþ-cafer